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Posted: 4:55 a.m. Friday, April 20, 2012

Usher hits Broadway and Randy Jackson plays matchmaker with Michael Jackson's daughter Paris!  

By Vikki Locke

  - The Lucky One (PG-13), starring Zac Efron, Chimpanzee (G), and Think Like a Man (PG-13), with Kevin Hart, are all out in theatres today.


- Brad and Angelina's wedding photos are expected to sell for $1 million. The couple may donate the money to charity.

- Jose Baez says he was able to fund a successful defense for Casey Anthony because ABC paid him $200,000 for photos of her.


- The Miami Heat are planning to build a nightclub inside the American Airlines Arena.


- The FDA is making Merck place warning labels on Propecia because the baldness drug's active ingredient, Finasteride, has been linked to erectile dysfunction.


- Men have begun wearing high heels to bring attention to sexual violence against women. The movement is part of an effort called 'Walk a Mile in Her Shoes' at www.walkamileinhershoes.org


- Martha Stewart is going to host a new PBS show called Martha Stewart’s Cooking School


- The Game Show Network plans to honor Dick Clark by showing blocks of the $25,000 Pyramid this weekend. Dick had a prostate surgery before his heart attack.


- George Zimmerman wants to meet with Trayvon Martin's parents. His lawyer, Mark O’Mara, says, “I’ve talked a couple of times about the conversation that, hopefully, will occur directly to the Martin family, a private conversation.”


- Brett Favre’s nephew, Dylan, was arrested yesterday for marijuana possession. A Mississippi cop busted him at a convenience store.


- Mark Wahlberg is in talks to star in the comedy Avon Man,
about a man, who becomes one of the company's top sellers.


- During an interview yesterday, Mike Tyson admitted he impregnated a prison guard while in jail. He refused to give out any more details.


- An ad, showing a breastfeeding Korean baby holding an Oreo cookie, has hit the net.
A Kraft rep says, "This ad was created by our agency for a one-time use at an advertising forum. The ad was never intended for public distribution or use with consumers."

 

Pumped Up: A Brockton, Massachusetts man recently called 911 to complain about high gas prices. The yelling and screaming man was outraged because he couldn’t believe Super Unleaded was $4.13 a gallon and he only got 6 gallons of gas for $25. No charges were filed.

 

Bad Apple: A group of parents are suing Apple because their children innocently racked up huge bills playing games and downloading music onto their iPhones. The parents say their children are being misled by apps that are free to download, but cost money to use. Apps like Smurfs' Village appear to be free, but encourage users to collect 'currency', which costs money. Kids don’t need to supply credit card details, so the costs are usually charged to the parents’ Apple account. Apple is changing some of the security settings on the iPhone in a bid to stop children from innocently racking up huge bills.

 

Three Bald Mice: Japanese researchers may have discovered a cure for baldness. They recently grew hair on bald mice using stem cells. One of the researchers says, "Our study provides a substantial contribution to the development of bioengineering technologies that will enable future regenerative therapy for hair loss caused by injury or by diseases such as alopecia and androgenic alopecia."

 

Man Goes Coconuts; Gets Arrested: The Fairfield, New Zealand police recently arrested Ethan Stockman for assaulting another man with a coconut. He has a June court date and cannot have any contact with his victim until then.

 

Shark Tale: Two commercial fishermen in Mexico recently caught a great white shark that was 20 feet in length and weighed 2,000 pounds. The shark was dead. It took the fisherman an hour to tow the carcass two miles to the coast. 50 people helped drag the shark onto the sand

 

Man's World Record Creates Buzz: Beekeeper She Ping recently covered his body in 73 pounds of bees. He used 331,000 bees to set a new world record for most bees on one person. She's apprentice used incense to keep the bees off his face. She is from China.

 

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds may move into a Connecticut home together. A source says, "They love getting out of the city and appreciate a slower pace. Ryan is practically living with her already. When he's at her apartment, it feels like home."

 

Jack Black wants an invitation to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's wedding. He says, ''That's a ways down the road. I haven't received any invite, so let's not get ahead of ourselves ... I don't have to get a present until I'm invited, right? And then I've got a whole year - isn't that the rule?"

 

American Idol's Randy Jackson plans to play matchmaker between booted contestant DeAndre Brackensick and Michael Jackson's daughter, Paris. A source says, "Randy plans to introduce Paris and DeAndre now that DeAndre has been voted off the show. Paris is 14, so she'll be allowed to go on dates — and she would love to step out with DeAndre. DeAndre and Paris have a lot in common."

 

Lady GaGa has been sucking on crystal lollipops. A source tells UGO News, "Gaga is a great believer in these crystals. She's got them all over her pad and she has had them made into lolipops so she can take them on tour. Gaga thinks sucking the crystal will install the energies in her body and mind quicker. It sounds strange but she's adamant they work."

 

Usher is going to star in the Broadway show, Fuerza Bruta, for one day on April 28th.

 

Advance ticket sales for Madonna's tour have now topped $250 million

 

Beyonce may be going back to school. She was recently spotted at New York's West 35th Street Alternative Education Complex. The school offers GED's.

 

Madonna wanted Adele to perform with her at the Super Bowl. She says, "I wanted her to be in the Super Bowl with me, but I think she was having her throat problem or throat operation or something so... I would love to meet her, I think she's brilliant, I love her."

 

Nicki Minaj didn't appreciate Madonna's Super Bowl kiss. She tells The Sun, “She kissed me but I didn’t kiss her. I wasn’t expecting it and I was shocked. I was shaking, thinking, ‘Is this really happening, why is she doing this?’”

 

Carrie Underwood will perform at the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday May 20th on ABC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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